Do your pets have an ear for music?

[Casting Thunder]

My dogs appear to like Joan Jett fronted songs. I've seen both of them wag their tails in time with with songs like Cherry Bomb and I Love Rock & Roll on totally different occasions while asleep. (It should be noted that I rarely play this stuff.)

My husky hates loud noises like thunder, but has never been bothered by my amp which I'm rather surprised by. I decide to noodle around plugged in yesterday, so I walk into my bedroom and find my husky on my bed. She's not supposed to be up there, but I let it slide. She's watching me, waiting for me to tell her off but I just noodle. I accidentally play three or four sour notes in a row and the dog jumps up and gives me this look like "Really, this is how you're telling me to git?" I go back to playing properly and the dog lays down again.

Anyone else have stories like this, other than 'my cat loves my bass' case?

 

[bassteban]

We had a cat that would hang in the room whenever I plucked the double bass. It just dawned on me that she only started doing that very late in life and was likely completely deaf

 

[Jazz Ad]

Not sure but my cat loves laying on my amp when I play.

 

[ebick]

Best animal/music vid ever....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBluUZ4NnZg

 

[icecycle66]

My beagle, who was raised on metal, will run to my room and start howling/baying when I'm playing loud and droney.

He'll run TO my room to start singing. I have a few recordings with him on it.

 

[BBox Bass]

Like the OP's dog, my cat Hartley Peavey is afraid of thunder. However, he loves to hang out in the basement during band practice. I named him the day I got him, but did not learn of his love of music until about a month later. He also likes squashing himself up against instruments when they're sitting on the couch. Here's a picture of him hanging out with a T20 I was photographing for an Ebay auction. Orville Gibson is in the background.

 

[russpurdy]

My lab/collie Charlie used to howl when I would play blues scales on guitar and bend certain notes.

Currently he howls when I do sound checks on my PA

Check 1...2. Awooooooooo...... And so on haha

 

[blastoff99]

The greyhound (RIP) would howl if we started to sing anything. The current beast, a border collie / cattle dog cross, seems to like bass playing. However, he totally freaks whenever I get out my soprano recorder, much less start to play it. So I quit.

We are trying to teach him to howl. It's not working so well. He tries hard.

 

[Nashrakh]

My pug is completely indifferent to music of all sorts. He doesn't care if I play myself either - but when I whip out the sax he gets the hay out of earshot lol. I would too.

 

[spade2you]

My corgi will only listen to me for a few minutes before he leaves the room.

 

[SirMjac28]

My dog either leaves the room or puts her head on my arm so I can't play.

 

[Clouz]

i was in a metal band and when we practiced she would go apepoopie and jump around leaping like an antelope! it was funny to watch. german sheppard

 

[kbaxter26]

Not sure, but everytime I start practicing, they both have to go out. "BROWN NOISE" perhaps!

 

[peabody]

Back in the old days of vinyl, my friend and I would spend a lot of time at his house listening to albums (on his parents Magnavox console stereo). For some reason, out of the hundreds of songs we listened to, whenever "La Grange" by ZZ Top would play, his dog would have a fit and start howling. I'm not sure why, because no other songs had that effect.
This makes me think about when my son was young and we watched Sesame Street together. Every once in awhile Little Richard would appear on the show. Whenever he came on, my son would start crying....but I guess I can understand that....

 

[avvie]

I once had a cat who liked Frank Zappa. She'd park in front of the speakers when I played Sheik Yerbouti or Tinseltown Rebellion. Dunno why.

 

[richntiff]

we have a pug - he doesn't care when I play bass, but when I play my acoustic guitar he looks at me with this bored, indifferent kind of look. Come to think of it, that's pretty much how he looks at me all the time...

 

[ZhuAnRen]

Not sure if the cat actually enjoys music, but he certainly loves messing with the metronome when I practice, and oddly enough manages to randomly change time signatures....That cat is a surprisingly good bass teacher.

 

[johnpbass]

My parents have a cat that loves to hear my Dad playing piano. She comes into his practice space and lays about 10 feet from him, tail going back and forth. Very cool to see.
On the other hand, my dog will not let me play bass uninterupted. He gets down low to the ground and barks his head off. He's part Beagle so the bark is annoyingly loud!
Maybe he's trying to tell me something!

 

[mpdd]

there was this r and b song about a bad girl that used to get played a lot in LA on the hip hop station, and my pit would get all excited, because she thought they were singing to her

 

[rapidfirerob]

I once had a cat who liked Frank Zappa. She'd park in front of the speakers when I played Sheik Yerbouti or Tinseltown Rebellion. Dunno why.

Highly evolved!